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• J&J Refutes Idea That COVID-19 Vaccine's Design Linked to Clots Scientists at J&J refuted an assertion in a medical journal that the adenovirus-based design of their COVID vaccine may explain why both J&J and AZ vaccines have been linked to very rare brain blood clots.
  Reuters Health Information, April 16, 2021
• AAN 2021 Intranasal Third-Generation CGRP Effective for Acute Migraine Intranasal zavegepant, a third-generation calcitonin gene-related peptide receptor agonist, is effective and well tolerated in the treatment of acute migraine, new research shows.
  Medscape Medical News, April 19, 2021
• NFK 2021 20% of Dialysis Patients Are Hesitant About COVID-19 Vaccine An early 2021 survey of a representative sample of 1515 US patients treated with hemodialysis showed that one fifth had some level of hesitancy about receiving a COVID-19 vaccine.
  Medscape Medical News, April 19, 2021
• Transgender Hormone Therapy Linked to Blood Pressure Changes Blood pressure elevations in transgender males and a subset of transgender females are seen before and soon after gender-affirming hormone therapy initiation.
  Medscape Medical News, April 19, 2021
• Next-Generation COVID Vaccines Have Many Different Targets As the world awaits evidence on the durability of the immune response of COVID vaccines, developers are already coming up with new approaches and delivery routes to offer more roads to protection.
  Medscape Medical News, April 19, 2021
• Medscape Physician Compensation Report: What COVID Did to MD Income COVID caused an immediate decline in most physicians' income in 2020, but surprisingly, many rebounded and finished the year in better shape than expected. Others are still struggling.
  Medscape Medical News, April 19, 2021
• Study Enhances Understanding of Prurigo Nodularis Patients with prurigo nodularis tend to make a greater number of visits to health care specialists and are burdened by a greater number of medical comorbidities.
  Medscape Medical News, April 19, 2021
• Female Rheumatologists See Fewer Patients, Earn Less Than Males A study on rheumatologists in Ontario provides information to help assess how the feminization of rheumatology will affect the subspecialty's future workforce.
  Medscape Medical News, April 19, 2021
• AGA Guidelines: Intragastric Balloons in Obesity Management For patients with obesity, the combination of intragastric balloon placement and lifestyle modifications may be preferable to lifestyle modifications alone, according to new guidelines.
  Medscape Medical News, April 19, 2021
• AAN 2021 Stroke 'Not a Common Complication' in COVID-19: New Studies Two new large studies show stroke rates in hospitalized patients with COVID-19 ranging from 1.5% to 2.2%, lower than originally thought. One also reports a reduction in stroke care during the pandemic.
  Medscape Medical News, April 18, 2021
• AAN 2021 Common MS Treatment Wears Off More Quickly in Black Patients Black patients with multiple sclerosis or neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder may respond differently to a common MS therapy compared to their White peers, new research suggests.
  Medscape Medical News, April 17, 2021
• Researchers Detail More Cases of Clots Tied to COVID Vaccines New evidence emerged tying vaccines for COVID-19 to extremely rare cases of people who develop blood clots and low platelets within weeks of being vaccinated.
  Medscape Medical News, April 16, 2021
• Low Risk of Brain Bleed in Older People on DOAC Therapy There is a low risk of delayed intracranial hemorrhage in older patients on direct oral anticoagulant therapy who fall and hit their head, according to a new study.
  Reuters Health Information, April 15, 2021
• More Exercise Linked to Lower Chance of Severe COVID-19: Study Researchers connect how much people report exercising before the pandemic and their outcomes after diagnosis with COVID-19.
  Medscape Medical News, April 16, 2021
• Antibiotics in Development Not Enough to Tackle 'Superbugs': WHO None of the 43 antibiotics currently in development as well as recently approved medicines are enough to combat the increasing emergence and spread of antimicrobial resistance, the WHO cautioned on Thursday.
  Reuters Health Information, April 15, 2021
• More Tolerable Treatment for Chagas Disease Shows Promise For treatment of Chagas disease, benznidazole can be taken for a shorter period of time and at lower doses with similar efficacy to the current standard and is more tolerable, a new study suggests.
  Reuters Health Information, April 15, 2021
• Disgraced Doctor Surrenders License After OSU Sex Abuse Scandal 'This is the first person who has been held accountable in this mess,' says Stephen Snyder-Hill, one of numerous students who claimed that Richard Strauss, MD, inappropriately examined and touched him.
  WebMD Health News, April 16, 2021
• NLR May Be Tied to Survival in Patients With NSCLC Brain Metastases In patients with non-small cell lung cancer brain metastases treated with immune-checkpoint inhibitors and upfront steroids, a low NLR was associated with lower overall survival.
  Reuters Health Information, April 15, 2021
• Pancreatic Cancer Surveillance in High-Risk: No Better Outcomes Surveillance of people at high hereditary risk for pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma can lead to diagnosis at an earlier stage, but as yet there is no clear survival benefit, a new study suggests.
  Reuters Health Information, April 15, 2021
• A 'Mess' of a Diagnosis: Is it Type 2 MI or a Nonischemic Imposter? Often tough to tell apart and with surprisingly poor prognoses, type 2 MI and nonischemic myocardial injury lack trials to guide therapy. Whether they require routine angiography is now being explored.
  Medscape Medical News, April 16, 2021